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290) Rock (and Roll) of Ages

        I feel sorry for kids these days– and by kids I mean anyone younger than 50 years old.  I feel sorry for them because they missed out on all the best music.  These poor kids did not get the chance to grow up with great music like we more fortunate Baby Boomers. […]

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286) Don’t Worry, Be Happy

The primary part of today’s meditation is from Randy Alcorn’s blog on January 20, 2014, entitled Three Things We Can Do to Deal with Worry (see:  www.epm.org )      The Greek word for worry means literally “to divide the mind.”  The worried mind is a torn, and therefore worn, mind…  Ironically, much of our worry is

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270) The Negro National Hymn

          James Weldon Johnson was born in 1871 in Jacksonville, Florida.  Though he is best known for his writing, he was gifted with many talents.  He was a poet, novelist, songwriter, anthologist, and newspaper publisher.  He was also an educator (high school principal at age 23, and for many years a college

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